Posts

From perception to action: How autonomous vehicles make decisions. Covers cost functions, game-theoretic planning, MPC, and the "End-to-End" debate.

The hardest problem in AV: predicting human irrationality. From physics-based Kalman Filters to Joint Autoregressive Distributions, Generative Motion Diffusion, and World State Propagations.

If you don't know where your eyes are relative to your feet, you trip. Covers intrinsics, extrinsics, SE(3) transforms, online vs. offline calibration, and time synchronization.

A collaborative 45-minute thinking algorithm tuned for Google-style coding interviews—classify the problem, co-design an optimal approach, code with confidence, and handle follow-ups with ease.

A deep dive into XGBoost — how second-order Taylor approximations and sophisticated regularization make it the dominant algorithm for structured data, bridging mathematical rigor with system engineering excellence.

A curated list of book recommendations covering personal development, philosophy, psychology, and life lessons from my personal library.